AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
March 22, 2016
Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
IT’s no laughing matter, but a former altar boy has turned the “tragedy’’ of child sexual abuse into a comedy.
Born and bred in Ballarat, Frank Hampster was abused by a Catholic priest in the 1980s.
Until being summonsed to give evidence to the child abuse Royal Commission last year, he had never spoken publicly of his experiences.
Now he is drawing on them for his fourth Melbourne International Comedy Festival show called “Cardinal Sins”.
Hampster said he had witnessed first hand how abuse was covered up by senior priests.
“Some of the royal commission testimony was laughable, so I had to keep rewriting the show,” he said.
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